friendship

Graham Greene’s The Quiet American retold in modern-day Germany, Ceremony of Innocence is a bit more blatantly Catholic than it’s predecessor, but that doesn’t stop it from making interesting reading. Catriona (Fowler) is a divorced Scottish Canadian journalist for a Catholic news agency who has spent the past two Read more

Tolkien and the Great War is an amazing, fantastic book, providing an intimate portrait of World War I as experienced by the well-known author J.R.R. Tolkien. It also shows how the events of the war served as the genesis of many of his greatest creations, from the Marshes of Read more

The Bear and the People is a charming children’s book about the joys of the open road and the wonders of nature. Bearman and Brown One travel the road putting on shows in the villages: the Brown One does his bear dance and the Bearman juggles seven balls. During Read more

Across the Universe begins the story of Amy, a girl who is frozen along with her parents for the long trip to a new planet. However, she is accidentally woken early and finds herself stuck on the ship Godspeed with no prospect of seeing her parents alive again. Life Read more